A rustic elegance can add a touch of natural sophistication to your wedding day. Whether you’re planning an outdoor wedding in a farm-style venue with nature inspired decor or have planned a vineyard wedding with a combination of luxury and rustic elegance, there’s something that you can always do to enhance your wedding venue’s look by adding a touch of rustic beauty to it.

7 Wedding Decor Ideas For A Rustic Elegance

Here are seven ways to combine your love for outdoors with rustic elegance for a wedding decor that makes everyone go wow:

Incorporate Natural Elements

Whether you’re creating signage for your wedding guests or getting tables for the dinner, using reclaimed wood is a great way to add a touch of rustic elegance to your big day. For an all-inclusive rustic theme, pick a venue that closely resembles your personal style and preferences.

For example, if you’re hosting a wedding in a vineyard, using wine barrels as a part of your seating arrangement can be a fun way to add some rustic charm to your wedding decor. On the other hand, if you’re celebrating your wedding in a barn or farm, create a backdrop or accent wall with floral arrangements and leaves to add to the rustic elegance of the venue.

Have Fun With Centerpieces

Centerpieces are a powerful way to add rustic elegance and natural charm to your wedding venue. As a central piece of decor, you should experiment with multiple centerpieces options before setting up your tables. For example, antique enamel jugs and rustic tin cans can be a great replacement for the usual vases that you often see at weddings.

You can also get creative and ditch the vase style altogether by using rust-toned flower garlands as the centerpieces. But if your idea leans towards a more maximalist rustic look, feel free to experiment with a combination of candles, ferns, and copper table numbers.

Make Seating Arrangements Unique

Whether it’s the bride and groom seats, or the seats for the guests, you can add a rustic touch by choosing unique seating arrangements for the day. Decorate the chairs with flowers, vines, and leaves for a nature-inspired look, especially if your wedding is garden or forest themed. You may also want to use tree stumps to create unique seats. It can be a fun way to add a rustic element to your wedding decor.

You can also create the seating chart by using leaves to designate the spots to your guests and leave a similar leaf on their seats to add whimsy while using natural elements that surround you in your wedding decor.

Use Locally Sourced Flowers

If you love a theme that represents your personality and offers a touch of nature inspired charm, you can choose a floral theme based on your choice of blooms. There are multiple ways you can incorporate flowers into your wedding theme. You can use floral scented candles, mini succulent plants, and personalized flower seed packets as a gift for your guests.

You can also use local flowers for decoration based on the choice of your venue. For instance, a wedding venue in Bozeman will have more calypso orchid, common yarrow, quaking aspen, and common chokecherry flowers in its decor but the wedding venues of Northern California will be decorated with California poppy, wild roses, purple chinese houses and arroyo lupines. The choice of florals shows thoughtfulness and symbolizes the blooming of your love.

Go For Arbors and Altar With A Rustic Look

An arbor is an integral part of your nuptial ceremony and can be a fun way to add a rustic look to your wedding venue. Start by adding your locally sourced flowers to the arbor, cover it with twisted vines and find deeper shades that represent the rustic elegance of your wedding decor such as copper, brown, and deep maroon.

For the altar, pick a color that matches your wedding theme, and decorate both the sides of the altar with loose flowers, or candle lanterns for a glowing entrance. If your venue allows for it, use an unconventional staircase altar for your nuptial ceremony or anchor your arbor with rustic styled vases instead of placing it directly on the ground.

Make DIY Wedding Favors

Creating DIY wedding favors is a sweet way to thank all those who made it to your special day and became a part of your celebrations. It can also be a chance to give them a memento of the rustic elegance that they experienced at your wedding. Some examples include custom mason jars, custom honey pots, vintage style lanterns, and personalized bookmarks.

Alternatively, if you’ve had an intimate gathering and your budget allows it, you can explore creative options for wedding favors, such as vintage-inspired clothing or accessories. Platforms like Luxury Promise,Wish and Poshmark known for their curated categories, can offer a variety of unique items that fit perfectly with a rustic or personalized wedding theme. Whether it’s charming clothing, one-of-a-kind accessories, or decorative pieces, these thoughtful favors can reflect your style and show appreciation for your guests.

Make The Ceiling A Sight To Behold

Last but not least, if you’re planning an indoor wedding, or opting for a hybrid wedding venue with both indoor and outdoor options, adding a graceful rustic touch to the venue ceiling can be a fun way to add more personality to the wedding venue. You could decorate the ceiling with hanging mason jars filled with LED lights. Or, you could arrange fairy lights for a magical view.

Another option is to bring greenery indoors and have small wreaths or floral bouquets hung from the ceiling. You can pick any type of decor as long as it matches your rustic style and adds gravitas to the overall venue. This will not only add gravitas to the wedding venue but also take away the attention from some not-so-aesthetic aspects of the wedding such as dumpsters. In fact, dumpster rentals can be discreetly integrated to manage waste without compromising the décor. Position dumpsters in areas that are out of sight but easily accessible for clean-up crews

Wrapping Up

At the end of the day, the choice of how you want your wedding decor to look like and more importantly, inspired by is yours. By choosing what type of elements or rustic elegance you want to incorporate in your wedding decor, and adding personalized touches to them, you can certainly have the most beautiful backdrop for all your wedding pictures that’s inspired by nature’s beauty and your personal charm.